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     Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4638 Registered: 12-2001  |
LOCAL SCREENING COMING SOON!  THURSDAY NIGHT JULY 14th @ 8:00pm, this multi award winning short film will screen as part of the Main Library's Short Film screening series. Shot entirely in Maplewood, I do hope to see some of you there. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4652 Registered: 12-2001 |
Funny how things work. I swore off working this summer so my son could spend some time in Vermont with his cousins who are moving from Africa to Indonesia and haven't seen him in 4 years. And so that I could see my brother for the same reasons. And yet work just happens. I am really lucky that way. I was just given the role of Serge in ART. A great play by Yasmine Reza that examines "art" and the nature of true friendships. Better than that, is that I get to do it with two actors who are, perhaps, my favorite actors in the state of NJ. J.C. Hoyt with whom I did Dr. Cooks Garden and You know I Can't Hear You With The Water Running and Michael Pollard with whom I did You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water is Running and Smoke and Mirrors. Plus all the unbelievable good fortune coming by way of THE READER. Today is one of those days I count myself extremely fortunate even if I am not making Tom Cruise money. I am getting to do what I love with people I respect and my films are finding their audience. THANK YOU to the powers that be. Plus I have a wonderful wife, a delightful handful of a son, and great friends. This is a day not to bitch. Except about the heat..LOL | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4670 Registered: 12-2001 |
Nice turn out at the library last night. Thanks to those that came. Intersting discussions followed both films. Thanks to RRaines for putting the event together. And guess what, the New Record didn't even show up. The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald both returned my calls, the News Record, nope. Sheesh. How local can local arts get when the library screens two films shot entirely on location in Maplewood. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2277 Registered: 5-2001  |
Duncan - The NR would have just gotten everthing wrong anyway. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4671 Registered: 12-2001 |
Buzz you may be right, but this is the second time that they have forgone a local event. I have been reading the thread about the N/R and still, despite all that, thought they would respond to something that was so grass roots local. But now they won't even have the chance to get it wrong. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2278 Registered: 5-2001 |
Ugggh. I take the ferry from time to time to Hoboken and there is a broadsheet called (of all things) the Battery Park City broadsheet (or something close to that). I have been thinking that it wouldn't be too pricy to print and not that hard to out write the n/r. I might start the mwood broadsheet. Featuring only arts, garage sale, and police blotter. I bet that would out sell the n/r in just a few months. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4673 Registered: 12-2001 |
Im with you man. Will help however I can. | ||
| Just The Aunt Supporter Username: Auntof13 Post Number: 1755 Registered: 1-2004  |
There's a thread about trying to start another paper with the hopes of getting rid of the Snooze Wrecked. Duncan, that is just unbelievable they didn't cover your film. Maybe they expect you to write your own review? Sorry I missed it. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4678 Registered: 12-2001 |
Well it wasn't just me, JTA. Another Maplewood resident, Gila Zalon, had her film, DREAM HOUSE, screened at the library as well. Two Films shot entirely in Maplewood and the N/R couldn't be troubled. I am cancelling my subscription this aftern..... oh, wait, nevermind.. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4686 Registered: 12-2001 |
Greetings From Greensboro VT. There is almost nothing as sublime as a rainbow trout sipping your fly off the surface, coming to net after a wonderful fight on 6x tippet, and then being stuffed with bacon and onion and grilled over charcoal. Nothing like it. | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 2699 Registered: 2-2003  |
Duncan sounds wonderful. I hope you are thoroughly enjoying yourself and relaxing!! | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4689 Registered: 12-2001 |
Well I am home. Two weeks running around the northeast like a fool. Vermont was wonderful. There are really few words to describe how much I love it there. And we had such fantastic weather. Then to Woods Hole for the film festival where I was made to feel like a king. The people who put on that event go out of their way to make you welcome and comfortable, plus the location is gorgeous. The welcome brunch was out on Penzance Road overlooking the ocean. It was a great way to meet all the other filmmakers (that were in attendance anyway) and drum up support for the screening. I met yet another Coppola who is directing now. Sheesh. The screening went well, despite some minor technical glitches. And since the folks from the feature film that screened after mine were not in attendance I got to have quite a Q&A after the movie. Aside from the filmmakers, the attendees of this festival are pretty savvy folks. The questions were insightful and definately not of the "How do you remember all those lines" sort of questions I get at talkbacks as an actor. It was also nice to see the film on an honest to God Big Screen and watch the audience watch the film. I am sorry that I cannot be in Chicago this week where it is screening as well at the Landmark Cinema downtown, but the expense was too much and this weekend I have to go back to Vermont for the memorial service and burial of one of my best friends and supporters. And that is the priority. I am glad to be home. Though I would still move back to New England in a minute were that a real possibility. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4699 Registered: 12-2001 |
Funerals suck. | ||
| Wendyn Supporter Username: Wendyn Post Number: 2011 Registered: 9-2002 |
Sorry for your loss Duncan. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4700 Registered: 12-2001 |
Thanks Wendyn Still in all its been a good few days. 1) THE READER has been invited by the first annual Big Island Film Festival in Hawaii to be part of their pre festival fundraiser with proceeds to benefit the North Hawaii Drug Free Coalition. 2) THE READER has been accepted into the Gotham City Short Film Festival in NYC 3) THE READER has been invited to submit to Grauman’s Egyptian Theater’s THE ALTERNATIVE SCREEN: A FORUM FOR INDEPENDENT FILM EXHIBITION, a bi-monthly, on-going showcase of independently produced films featuring work in all genres. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4718 Registered: 12-2001 |
Just got cast in another play. ART by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton. Great play. Great Part. So wild to be having all this work bubbling up and yet still feel like I am not doing anything. LOL I do count my blessings though. I am doing what I love to do for a living, am supported in that by my wife and family and friends and am now starting to be able to employ talented friends and people I meet whose artistic voices do not get heard nearly enough. That THE READER is Morgan Hallett's film debut is one of the many things about that film that make me extremely happy. She deserves all the compliments she is getting during the Q&A's after the screenings. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4729 Registered: 12-2001 |
Just made one of the most difficult professional decisions I have ever been faced with. Turning down a play I really want to do so that I can be available for the entirity of the Gotham City Short Film Festival. Trying to do both would have diluted and diminished my ability to do either to the best of my abilities and so I had to choose what was going to be the best professional move forward. I chose the festival. I will act again. Certainly in NJ. In fact am slated to star in a show at the Bickford again. But it is entirely against an actors nature to turn down a play for the mere possibility of something else happening. But after three years of sweat, money, time and energy, to miss an opportunity to get some real money for the feature, requires that I make the fullest possible effort at this festival. So with that said. You are all cordially invited to the NYC screening of THE READER at the Gotham City Short Film Festival on Sunday afternoon Sept. 26th at Cooper Union's Great Hall. Details at www.gothamfestival.com | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2487 Registered: 5-2001 |
Duncan. Sounds like the right move to me. I am going to do my ninja best to make it to the showing at the 26th. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4732 Registered: 12-2001 |
That would be great Buzz. I hope you can make it. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4751 Registered: 12-2001 |
Ok, SO the single most important achievement of my young filmmaking career is happening in Septembmer. The executive director of the Gotham City Short Film Festival and the people at Warner Brothers have invited me to screen my short film, THE READER (shot entirely here in Maplewood) before the pre-release screening of Tim Burton's newest film CORPSE BRIDE. Best part is that Tim will be there to do a Q&A and discuss his film and the heavy hitters in NYC will be there along with some press, I should suppose. Elizabeth Franz, the star of THE READER, is coming and so it has become a fairly high profile event. VIP only. I am truly psyched. The regularly scheduled screening still stands at Sunday Afternoon Sept. 25th and I look forward to that too since it will be much more low key and relaxed. But I have to say I am a little excited by this. Also had a note today with a quote from Charles Durning about my latest film, BUST. He said we were free to use it on all publicity. "A very strong piece - hope to see more from these folks." Been a pretty good day since I also got to see my son perform for the first time as well. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4756 Registered: 12-2001 |
And then it just keeps getting better, as BUST my third short just got into it's first festival. It has been accepted into competition in the Justice/Human Rights division of the 16th Vermont International Film Festival. So right now, I have two films out on the circuit. I must remember this when I am doing nothing and between gigs, that there was this time..... | ||
| Wendyn Supporter Username: Wendyn Post Number: 2060 Registered: 9-2002 |
What awesome news! Conngrats! | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2508 Registered: 5-2001 |
Remember to keep posting on MOL when you hit it big. Looks like you are on the move Duncan. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4757 Registered: 12-2001 |
Thanks you two! But, as I have learned from years in this business, the ebb and flow and the "what have you done for me lately" junk follows. So I just keep swimming. But I also will not lose sight of this last week, when things went really well. No matter how anything else shakes out. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4762 Registered: 12-2001 |
Everyday, something new and cool happens. I really have to remember this. I just had an email from the festival director asking for a photo and my bio cause PEOPLE magazine is apparently doing a big article about the festival. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4785 Registered: 12-2001 |
Hey all who enter here. H2TA is screening all three of my films on Wednesday Sept 15th @ 8pm. No admission. Uh....the director will be there to take questions....  All three films run a combined 45 minutes tops. Look for more info in the Arts section soon. Just had an email from the good people at the News Record asking for photos, so maybe they will actually cover it. buzzsaw... I am doing this so you don't have to schlep into NYC on the 25 to see it at the GCSFF. This hopefully will make it easier.  | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7225 Registered: 4-1997  |
Cool. | ||
| las Citizen Username: Las Post Number: 372 Registered: 10-2003 |
Congratulations, Duncan. I'll bring the acorns. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2541 Registered: 5-2001 |
Duncan - sounds great! I'll be there. I already have a list of questions for you. Like: 1) when did people stop saying "we're going to the pictures" and start saying "we're going to the movies"? Isn't a film just a series of moving still images (pictures)? I hope the Arts have a red carpet. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4786 Registered: 12-2001 |
Quick answer. Film movies are individual still photographs run at a speed (24 Frames per second) that makes the individual images look like fluid movement and when synched to a seperate audio track makes a "movie" or a "film". Video sucks. j/k Actually it was probably when Kodak invented the slide carousel projector. Then "going to the pictures" meant going to some overbearing aunt or uncles house to see them out of frame on that lovely vacation to the VA Beach Boardwalk when they ran into Frankie Vallie..Swear we did. Just look thats him right next to Edgar, well thats his arm around Edgar, I was so excited when I took the picture that the camera moved a little and then the whole...... Honey, just click forward ok? Look forward to meeting you! | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4791 Registered: 12-2001 |
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| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4798 Registered: 12-2001 |
Well it just keeps getting better. THE READER has just been accepted into its 7th Festival. In late October/Early Nov. it will screen as part of the 7th Annual Williamstown Film Festival in Williamstown Ma. Coooooooooooooooooool. | ||
| Virtual It Girl Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 3099 Registered: 5-2001 |
Congrats! | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4799 Registered: 12-2001 |
this is cool too!  | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4818 Registered: 12-2001 |
Festivals Number 8 and 9. #8 in the Chicago International REEL shorts Film Festival #9 is the Hope and Dream Film Festival in Hope, NJ. This is getting silly. | ||
| LazyDog Citizen Username: Lazydog Post Number: 78 Registered: 6-2005  |
Duncan, congrats....not silly, just tough to figure out how you're going to attend all the festivals P.S. Elizabeth send her warm wishes. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4826 Registered: 12-2001 |
Please come. And bring money.  | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4831 Registered: 12-2001 |
Here is a picture of the William O. Rogers Elementary School. It was founded by my great great grandfather just after the civil war and they were called The Roadrunners.  I am glad I got to visit there before this whole mess in NOLA. Despite being a slave owner, he founded this school for the inner city black kids and was one of the first of its kind, if not the first. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4872 Registered: 12-2001 |
"Summer's beginning to give up her fight"  | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 4883 Registered: 12-2001 |
DON'T FORGET THE FUNDRAISER TONIGHT AT H2TA!!!! IF YOU HAVE ALREADY GIVEN TO THE RELIEF EFFORT COME ANYWAY AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE AND SEE THE FILMS AND HEAR SOME GOOD SOUNDS |
